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| Gear maniac Joined: Nov 2006
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Thread Starter | Room treatment needed for tracking vox & guitars?
Hi All, Everyone says 'room treatment' is one of the critical aspects for a project studio... I was wondering what you thoughts were for the needed room treatment for tracking vox & guitars (elec and acoustic). For vox, wouldn't deadening the space (gobos w/ corning 703 panels, blankets, etc) be sufficient? For guitars, what's needed here? Deadening the room reflections, or getting the RIGHT refelctions, or controling the bass, or...? FWIW, my studio is 10x22', carpet floors, has 2" wedge sound absorbtion tiles in various crucial areas (for mixing), no bass traps, two very large gobos. Thanks! Tom |
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| Gear maniac Joined: Feb 2006 Location: Jax - FL
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A classic "boxers or briefs" question.. and the answer of course is as Bob Dole stated: "Depends". First off, when close micing using a directional mic on a loud signal source, the room reverb component of the recorded sound is going to be trivial. Stick a '57 in the mouth of a Twin and doesn't much matter whether you are in the laundry room or Albert Hall. Stick a large diaphragm condensior a couple of feet in front of a vocalist and the nature of the room does start to matter... start talking overheads on live drums and the room sound will kill the buzz, or help make the track juicy depoending on how good it is. As sources are placed further from the mic, and the mic less directional the room sounds goes from trivial to critcal. Also, in a small room with reflective surfaces, just about everything is going to sound lousy compared to a more balanced and open room - thus a reflective / untreated booth is a tough place to do your best work regardless of how you mic the instrument. Generally broadband treatment [absorbers that work on everything from lows to highs] in corners, and earlry reflection control will make any room sound better - and thus be a better place to work - and the smaller the room the more beneficial such treatment typically works out to be. Good Luck! |
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| Gear maniac Joined: Nov 2006
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Do you think bass traps are critical for a 10x22' room, or would a couple of gobos positioned in two different corners do the trick? (Part of my problem, is that 2 of the corners have doorways, so no real wall space there.) Also, are the round diffusers/reflectors things needed, or just REDUCTION of the reflection? |
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| Gear Guru Joined: Oct 2002 Location: New Milford, CT, USA
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Tom, Quote:
Acoustic Treatment and Design for Recording Studios and Listening Rooms Quote:
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Is this an all-in-one room, or a tracking room only? Regardless, the goal is to have absorption that works well over as wide a range as possible. --Ethan
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| Gear nut Joined: Nov 2006
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Hi. I've always wondered about the same question. I read everywhere about room treatment, but focused in monitor room acoustics. I have an All in One room, where I mix, and track acoustic instruments. It is a small - medium sized room. What's the best treatment for a tracking room? Broadband absorbers in corners?, and early reflection absorbers in walls? Thanks Pandemonium |
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| Gear Guru Joined: Oct 2002 Location: New Milford, CT, USA
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I have an all-in-one room too, and there's plenty of bass trapping in the corners, more along the walls, and a fair amount of mid/high absorption scattered around. --Ethan | |
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